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Furtiv Fixes The Missing Pieces Of Share Online & Pixelpipe

By Dotsisx on October 16, 2009

Every recent Nokia device has been shipping with Share Online built into it, that allows instant uploads of images and videos to Ovi Share, Flickr and Vox. The problem is that the service support stops there, and there is no easy way to upload your media to Facebook, YouTube, Picasa, or any of the other known media sites. Pixelpipe solved that issue a long time ago, by bringing one add-on to Share Online that allows you to send media to multiple destinations or pipes. While we, on Symbian-Guru, are avid users and evangelists of the service, we have to admit that creating another account online and managing it, then bringing the installation to your device, might be a bit too much for someone who just wants to upload photos to one service, like Facebook, or Picasa. Enter Furtiv.

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Furtiv have recently released their beta service, which includes Facebook, Picasa, YouTube and Twitter, or basically the main missing pieces of Share Online. All you have to do is head over to http://furtiv.mobi on your phone’s browser and click on the links to the service that you want to add. A configuration file will be downloaded and added instantly to your Share Online. You can then open the application and see that your new service is “Ready for activation”. Clicking on that will take you through the rest of the activation process where you enter your account details. Then, whenever you want to upload a media item, you open it in the Gallery, then select Send, Upload, choose your service, add a title and tags if you want, then upload. Here are a couple of screenshots that should ease you through the process.

Note that clicking on any of Facebook, Youtube or Picasa in Share Online’s main application view will launch the mobile version of the service website, whereas with the Twitter plugin, you get a menu view to Upload as well as view avatar pictures from your contacts through the Timeline, Mentions and Direct Messages. Furtiv is still under beta, so if you notice any issues, report them to the Furtiv team on Twitter: @furtiv.

If you’re wondering about the difference between Pixelpipe and Furtiv, it’s in the user they target. Pixelpipe makes it easy to upload to several destinations simultaneously and offers a lot of control in terms of upload Albums, routing tags, and such, but you have to have a registered Pixelpipe account to use it. It’s also available on several platforms, such as a nice Firefox plug-in. Furtiv, on the other hand, aimes to make it dead simple for an everyday user to upload media to one of his favorite services, like Facebook or Youtube, without him having to worry about creating a separate account and managing it.

Furtiv basically fills the void between the limited capability of Share Online’s official plugins and Pixelpipe’s unlimited potential. Personally, I’m sticking with Pixelpipe, but what about you? Are you a regular Share Online user, a Pixelpipe user, or does Furtiv solve your problem by giving a solution in the middle?

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  • Carlos

    I installed furtiv on my N97 running V12 a few days ago, and I’m really impressed! I had used ShoZu on my N95 for much the same thing, but when I upgraded my phone, and ShoZu decided they’d like to charge me to download their app, I migrated to Pixelpipe.

    I couldn’t get on with pixelpipe at all, as I didn’t find the app particularly user friendly (and I’m as geeky as they come!), and as such, soon dropped it.

    Furtive, as the article says, sits nicely between the native share option,and pixelpipes overcomplicated processed……..it’s a perfect replacement for ShoZu.

    Glad I managed to pick up a beta of this………it’s going to be one of the most used apps on my handset.

  • http://www.planetfrank.us frank

    I stay with gravity

  • http://www.symbian-guru.com Dotsisx

    Interesting, you only use photo uploads to twitter?

  • http://whatleydude.com James Whatley

    Glad you clarified the difference between the two, hard to see from the outset.

    Good work.

  • Lloyd

    I have Pixelpipe and furtiv loaded on my N97 NAM. At first I was hopeful of furtiv but that did not last. I do hope they change a few things during this beta period.

    First, I do not like how furtiv creates it’s own folder in facebook to load images. Unlike Pixelpipe, furtiv will not let me specify the folder I want the images or videos installed to in fb and I have specific folders for sharing. As some are private and others public I have a concern with furtiv automatically creating a public folder. Do I want work associates or my parents seeing those photos I loaded from Cabo Wabo?! Nope.

    Second, I don’t know what that long number furtiv has created as a username, and more importantly where it is stored and who has access to it. I would prefer to have my current fb, flickr or other social networking account info.

    Third, this is a beta yet I haven’t been able to find a place to send comments or suggestions and looking at their blog it looks like that isn’t the place.

    This last comment is related to the whole Share Online experience and not furtiv…

    Now that I have furtiv and Pixelpipe I sure would love to be able to pick “Share on furtiv” or something similar added to the list of options available when viewing images in the browser. All I have is the “Share on Ovi” and even though something else is set as the default I get a connection to Ovi, which is as it should be. But since I don’t use Ovi I lose that direct connection and need to take multiple steps using the Upload option.

    The sum of all this? “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it”, and for me Pixelpipe works perfectly. I can send to one place and it uploads to my YouTube, fb, and flickr all at once. And the biggest advantage is having the ability to specify for each social net site what folder location for my items.

  • http://www.symbian-guru.com Dotsisx

    In regards to the last comment, go to Share Online, highlight the service you want, then click Options / Set as default. That should allow you to upload with one click to the service you want. If multiple uploads is ur thg, and u prefer being able to specify ur folder, then u’re not the target for Furtiv, as stated above in the post ;)

  • komplex

    thanks for this, i prefer furtive, it works with something that is already built in the phone.

  • Lloyd

    Hhhhmmmm, I did try having Furtiv as the default and also Pixelpipe. Then when trying to Share using the “Share with Ovi” link it still sends me to Ovi and wants me to create an Ovi account. Hopefully the 2.0 release will fix the Share features too.

  • http://www.symbian-guru.com Dotsisx

    Lloyd, select the image in your gallery and go to the 3rd icon on the toolbar, the earth globe with an arrow. It should be “Upload to x’s pipes” if you have Pixelpipe as default, or something else if you have Furtiv I believe. Don’t click on the 2nd icon that is the envelope with Send then Share on Ovi, that always goes to Share on Ovi ;)

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